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Re: Its about time someone put this concept in print.
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:29:19 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mike Petrucelli writes:
> As of posting the article refers to the January 30th article. (It will probably
> get pushed to the "previous articles" section soon)
> http://www.Creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?next=0&ColumnsName=tso
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> Aside from that the 'subject' says it all.
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> -Mike Petrucelli
Very well written article laying out the issues of military involvement.
But what it failed to cover was that Germany, b/w WW1 and WW2 was shunned by
the world--there was a depression, and the expression 'taking a wheelbarrow
load of money to the store to buy a loaf of bread' was the norm.
So what we have here is a country just getting pissed off at the rest of the
world anyway--it was a powderkeg, not just because the leaders were
'expansionists', but because the people, in their hunger, in their being
'ignored' by the rest of the world, wanted a radical change.
You make the people content and they won't wwant to go to war, no mater what
the leaders want. Remember all that money western civ. sank into Germany
and Japan *after* the war--all the help, medical treatment, the help--do you
think there would have been a war if all that help and money went into those
countries *before* the war? You extend an olive branch to the
people--people don't often bite the hand that feeds them, especially if
there is a 'no strings attached' to that help.
Saying that we'll help *only if* these countries follow our rules 'n such is
just extortion.
Anyway, war is inevitable because the people in power want the war. No
overture of peace will be heard as long as this is the case.
History may repeat itself, but we're not learning--we only look to a 'small
picture' remedy that we think has worked in the past--there's a bigger
picture which goes back even further in history and is repeated on every
scale of human civilization--what affects my neighbour has, does, and will
affect me--help my neighbour remedy the problem and I will help myself.
Dave K
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